Max Weber’s classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European and Indian early modern cultural encounters from the 16th century onward.
Ines G. Zupanov is a historian at CNRS, Paris. She is a social/cultural historian of Catholic missions in South Asia and the Portuguese empire. Author of three monographs and a dozen edited volumes, she has contributed many articles and chapters to scholarly books and journals in different languages
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List of figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Enchantment Never Ends Part I: Hagiographies 1. Holy Zeal and Fervor: Jesuit Enchanted Geography in Asia 2. Holy Fear and Love: Jesuit Affective Economy 3. Accidental Global Historians: Jesuits and Discalced Carmelites Part II: Martyrdom 4 “The History of the Future:” Missionary Enchantment of Self 5. From Pilot to Martyr: The French Connection in Southeast Asia Part III: Knowledge 6. Learning about Buddhism: Correspondence between China and India 7. Neither White nor Black: Goan Brahman Oratorians in Sri Lanka 8. Science and Demonology: French Jesuits in South India Afterthought Bibliography Index
